Z Health in Minnesota for RKCs-Its Time and Testimonial

Greetings! I trust everyone had a great weekend. I went to the Saints game (semi pro) baseball game outside on a beautiful Friday night with friends and got to ride my new kiteboard on Saturday. I was not able to kite due to low winds, but did a short session of wake surfing behind the boat. Special thanks to Gary who made the board by hand and from scratch (it turned out beautiful) and Mike "SuperSize" for the pull behind the boat. Great times!!

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Z Health Time for RKCs coming to Minnesota!
The RKC FMS is coming up soon--Aug 8-10 here in Minnesota, so if anyone is interested in a custom Z Health session from yours truly while you are in town, drop me a line. I only have a few appointment slots at this time, so first come first serve. See this link for all the details. Either way, drop me a line if you are going to be here as it is great to meet people again and meet others for the first time live and in person!

Professional Testimonial
"Mike Nelson is an extremely knowledgeable Zhealth instructor. His dry sense of humor, ability to convey the material and his focus on good form makes it easy to achieve your goals."

Andrea DuCane
Master RKC
Z Health, Level 4 Instructor

Choices and Body Composition?

Note: I've been trying out so new blog features to publish items at certain time frames. Well it seems this one got published recently, but the date was a month ago, so you may not have seen it. I apologize if you already saw it. More new stuff soon once I complete my stats final (my final final).

A new study from the U of MN shows that you don't have an unlimited capacity to make decisions. In fact, according to this study, your ability to make decisions is actually LIMITED.

Kathleen D. Vohs, PhD, the study’s lead author and a member of the University of Minnesota’s marketing department, concluded that making choices apparently depletes a precious resource within the human mind. “Maintaining one’s focus while trying to solve problems or completing an unpleasant task was much harder for those who had made choices compared to those who had not,” says Vohs. “This pattern was found in the laboratory, classroom and shopping mall. Having to make the choice was the key. It did not matter if the researchers told them to make choices, or if it was a spontaneously made choice, or if making the choice had consequences or not.” (Source "Newswise Social and Behavioral Sciences")

How Does This Affect My Ability to Loose My Muffin Top
Dan John once said that your ability to make decisions is limited (1), just like the amount of shaving cream in a can. How does this affect your body composition? According to Dan John, you need to prepare for the week by having all your food and supplements ready to go and when it is time to eat, you just take out a container, open it up or heat it in the microwave--boom, you are done! This skips the whole decision process and thus saves "mental energy" and still allows you to make a good food selection.

Does It Work in Real Life?
YES. In chemistry (hold on, step away from the mouse and wait out that urge to clicking away from this site and I promise this will be brief) there is something known as "the rate limiting step" in a series of reactions. The reactions can't proceed any faster than this step. If you can speed up this step, you can speed up a whole series of reactions. You have probably heard "A chain is only as strong as its weakest link"--similar idea. Or the idea of a "king pin" defined as "one innermost or central pin in an arrangement of bowling pins" or "the most important person or element in an enterprise or system" (source Webster's dictionary).

The whole point is to target the rate limiting step, and your results go up exponentially with less work on your part (better leverage).

For most this comes down to simple stuff like grocery shopping and food prep. Get athletes to have all their food ready to go, and BINGO much better nutrition!

Summary
So the point is that despite what you think, there is mounting evidence that your ability to make lots and lots of decisions for free is not possible. In fact, your ability to make decision is limited, so you need to plan ahead for success!

Comments?
REFERENCES
1) John, Dan "Iron John: Free Will & Free Weights" online at T-Nation